Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Semantic Blogging and Decentralized Knowledge Management (10 Dec 2004) Snippets are information nuggets that we would like to store, annotate and share. This is an example of what I call informal, decentralized knowledge management. Email is inadequate for this task; web logs (blogs) offer a decentralized though unstructured approach. I advocate the use of rich metadata to address this task; a technique I call Semantic Blogging. In this article I show how semantic blogging enables new behaviours such as: View (using semantic metadata to enhance the view of rich content); Navigation (using semantic metadata to more efficiently find blog items of interest); and Query (using semantic metadata to build rich queries over a community's knowledge). A simple prototype to demonstrate these capabilities is available at http://www.semanticblogging.org/ Article URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-223.html Read 105 more articles from HP Labs sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: What Money Can't Buy     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy